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Hardcore leftist Andrew Yang leads NYC mayoral race April 16, 2021 Andrew Yang, the communista who wants universal basic income, has taken the lead in the mayoral race in New York City. With a little more than two months until New Yorkers head to the polls to pick the Democratic candidate for mayor, Andrew Yang is widening the gap over his second-place rival, Eric Adams. A survey conducted by Data For Progress, a national think tank, found 26 percent of voters are supporting Yang’s candidacy...

Print Continue to article content New York Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang speaks to members of the media along Canal Street subway station in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Left leaning PAC to deploy policy poll in making case against Yang As the primary race for New York City mayor heads into the final 10 weeks, a left-leaning group — buoyed by a new poll showing popularity for its chief policy goals — is gearing up to make a public case against frontrunner Andrew Yang. The po...

NEW YORK — As the primary race for New York City mayor heads into the final 10 weeks, a left-leaning group — buoyed by a new poll showing popularity for its chief policy goals — is gearing up to make a public case against frontrunner Andrew Yang. The political action committee “Our City” recently commissioned a survey that found 56 percent of likely voters are unsure who to back in the eight-way Democratic primary — a race Yang has dominated since his entry in January. But the same ...

Gov. Greg Abbott made his comments on Fox News on Sunday morning. H.R.1, which passed the House on March 3, would overhaul voting law, including expanding mail-in balloting.

Julian Brave NoiseCat, vice-president of progressive think tank Data For Progress, joined Conversations host and Canada’s National Observer founder and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood for a discussion on grassroots political organizing.

February 15, 2021 The president has formed an early working relationship with progressive Democrats, easing concerns about an intraparty battle. SHOW TRANSCRIPT President Joe Biden has been in the White House less than a month — and so far, hes managed to curry favor with the partys left wing, staving off an intraparty battle that previously seemed all but certain. "Theyve been really great at outreach," Rep. Mark Pocan, chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said of the Bid...

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Point & counterpoint | Healing America: Karen Dolan - Beneath division lie common goals Karen Dolan FacebookTwitterEmail Biden has promised to bring a divided electorate together. Is this even possible? Social divisions may take a generation to heal. But with enough political will, the answer on policy questions should be a resounding yes. Despite our divisions, progressive responses to bread and butter issues enjoy broad, bipartisan support. Majority support exists for everything from cash rel...

Does Mitch McConnell Want to Lose the Senate?   It’s almost like Mitch McConnell is tired of controlling the Senate. In the past days, he’s urged his fellow Republicans not to raise objections to the electors this coming January 6th that, barring some historic bravery and perhaps a miracle, will see the most corrupt, incompetent, and Trojan-horsey candidate take the most powerful seat in the world. And then came the passing of the worst bill perhaps in U.S. history—veiled in “Covid r...

The GOP Just Let Democrats Have Their Stimulus and Campaign On It Too Intelligencer 12/30/2020 © Paras Griffin/Getty/Getty Images Right on the money. Paras Griffin/Getty/Getty Images Next week, voters in Georgia will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate in 2021 — and thus, quite plausibly, the future of macroeconomic, climate, and health-care policy in the United States. President-elect Joe Biden has signaled that, should his party secure full control of the federal government,...